This coming Sunday's film is Lebanon: first of all, please don't be kept away by talk of the violence that it contains. It is essentially a war film, and of course that entails violence, but the thrust of the film is definitely anti-war and you'll find the experience gripping (I hope) and persuasive. Here are some views from a couple of critics:
'In its creative audacity, the precision of its psychological portraiture and, above all, in its uncompromising moral seriousness, Lebanon accomplishes about as much as any war movie can.'
A. O. Scott, New York Times.
'It is a modern war movie of unusual poetic-political resonance and a brilliant stroke of minimalist filmmaking'
James Verniere, Boston Herald.
Oh... and it did win the Golden Lion at Venice.
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